This has been goin on since Saturday.
So I work at a dog groomers. I don't do any of the grooming stuff, I blow dry the bath dogs. I'm the person that gets old, blind, sick, seizure, on medicine, scared, first time here, physically disabled/handicap, health issue, heart problems, arthritis, sometimes even mean dogs, ect... dogs like that. Which for the most part I don't mind.
On Saturday I got a scared dog who was there for the first time. This dogs coat after the bath (so still wet) was extremely curly, thick and coily. It is no secret I am the worse fluffer there. They literally do not give me poodles, with the one exception of an old, blind seizure poodle. And I've seen a coworker fluff him when I was done with him.
I try my absolute hardest to fluff this dog really
really good, esp since the dog is going to my boss to groom, who needs fluff jobs to be
PERFECT
. After what feels like an excessive amount of time and my anxiety(?) gettin to me that I'm taking too long, I bring the dog up front. I'm also not able to get anythin more fluffy. As I bring the dog up front my boss instantly come over to examine it, saying it was alot of hair wasn't it? I say yes and put the dog down. Later my boss comes into the back and goes to complain to the bather that the fluff job I did was ****. Her words. Meanwhile I'm attempting to fluff another dog and I'm in the same room as she says that. Like, maybe cause its loud back there she figures I don't hear her, but damn say it to my face!
And if I'm being completely honest, she isn't giving me enough credit. That was a HARD dog to fluff, anyone would have said that. And the entirety of it was not that bad. For a dog with that coat I'd say I did good for myself. Usually I would play down myself and say somethin like half way to decent but that dog was hard and it was not that bad, considering I had to do it.
Like damn next time you want a
scared first timer with a thick coily coat to be ultra fluffed, give it to someone else. There are two other people who can handle that. And don't go complain to the bather who gave me the dog to do. She give me that one cause she (the dog) was scared. I do all the scared dogs.
I have more to complain about yesterday & today but this post is already quite long. I just want to get this day over with.